People in countries where backhanders are a way of life see resources squandered and become disillusioned with public institutions.

在那些回扣是一种生活方式的国家里，民众看到了财力遭到浪费，并对公共机构不再抱有幻想。

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First, some test resources have been squandered.

第一，某些考试资源被浪费。

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She was on track to become one more illiterate African woman, another of the continent's squandered human resources.

她只会成为再一个不识字的非洲妇女，又一个被浪费的非洲人力资源。

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In the early 1990s the company squandered enormous resources and billions of dollars on a series of failed consumer products like the Newton PDA. Its efforts to do everything itself, building capabilities as varied as cutting-edge hardware development and volume manufacturing, led to huge losses and massive layoffs.

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Resources were squandered, vegetables were allowed to rot on the ground and mass starvation was the result.

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Unless IT has a vision for the processes it wants to implement using this new generation of applications, much time will be wasted as too much data is collected, resources are squandered on unnecessary and misguided customization, and use falls off after implementation because the application provides little value.

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